Here's NPR's Isabella Gomez Sarmiento. ISABELLA GOMEZ SARMIENTO, BYLINE: The "Amulet" series follows Emily Hayes, a young girl who finds a mysterious amulet in her great-grandfather's house.

“Kwatang,” as 44-year-old Emily Sarmiento is called by around her tribe in Rodriguez, Rizal, is a Dumagat at heart despite recent “flexibility” in her belief system. Her respect for her tribe’s ...